The Last Places On Earth: Journeys in Our Disappearing World (Paperback)

from oldman

The Last Places on Earth: Journeys in Our Disappearing World by Gary Mancuso is a travelogue book chronicaling the author's several year journeys to see and experience disappearing cultures throughout the world. The series of journeys are punctuated by personal issues brought up almost in a list ...

from evenlake

Written in the vein of the old travelogue, this is a book about one man's personal travels around the world to places the reader has never been. But, these books have been done many times before, and done better. This just kind of felt like a vanity project, and could have used an editor. After t...

from mkboylan

The premise of this book was admirable - visit the few places left on earth that are less changed by development, before it is too late to see and learn about the cultures. Mancuso may have been a little too ambitious in the number of places he chose to cover, leaving the reader not enlightened a...

from MarkHufstetler

As a fairly avid real-world and armchair traveler, I was particularly pleased to receive a copy of Gary Mancuso's book, "The Last Places on Earth" through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. After finally making it through the book, I now look at it with a bit of disappointment -- still int...

from dverg48

Interesting look at travel in the out of the way places, and experiences with the local population good and bad. From the depths of Borneo to the fringes of the Antarctic, he touches on the cultures and changes at the edges of modern civilization. A good book to read before you head out on your t...